Categories: From the Farm This Week
Date: Jul 1, 2011
Title: 1 July 2011
Well what a week this week, hard work, long hours, mainly on the new fence. We have had help from Wally to run and strain wires, Beate has made 1500 concrete post staples. Justin has been ramming and digging (he is very fit and can dig like one thing) and we have two new Wwoofers Elton and Sina who have worked like steam trains. Justin's wife Aleena came out for two nights. Ila and Samuel have put time in to it. Ross came out today to take photos and ended up pulling wire and Ruth has done heaps of cooking for everyone in-between doing her jobs and mine. Yesterday we hired a batten stapler and a large petrol air compressor to put the battens on as we have over 1000 to put on the fence. It will be well on the road to be finished next week. At night we have been tidying up the work shop so we can make some gates for the fence while it rains and rain it has. The Gypsy is still getting up to the fence loaded with gear and people but the ground is so soft and slippery if i put the brake on we would be over a bank or something. I found time to get to a JP and sort the Rarebreed bank details and get more rings in pigs as they are really starting to dig the place up. Beate puts the pigs out each day onto the grass and feeds them at night and locks them in, but she has had 3 days away and Ruth has been doing that. The pigs missed her I'm positive
and when Beate came back I think she really missed the pigs and farm. She came back with gifts, oven mitts, wine glasses and a really nice pancake bowl (which Ila has claimed).
With the mix of weather, frost on Monday, rain, wind and sun, the chickens have dropped in egg production even more and on Saturday we had the road rally close the road.
And those cars are noisy and the poultry just are not used to it, all the back firing and revving so even more drop. We need them to get going as the ledger is not looking good.
O well See Ya Sunday